Re: HP & Linux discrimination

[Christian Brandt]

Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:

> As I had to learn, said drive is *not* a DAT-2 but a DAT-1
> and 180KB/s is about the advertized speed.  DAT-2's are
> usually much faster (factor 5 or 6, IIRC).  I see a
> replacement coming ...

 Most DDS2-Drives run at 300-400k at already compressed data, the
fastest known DDS-Streamer is the Sony-7000, which handles around 700k/s
and is quite expensive.
 But as it rewinds much slower than eg a HP1533A, it is not "simply the
best", too.

Gruss,
    Christian